Sexual Violence and American Slavery (eBook)

The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South

Shannon Eaves (Autor)

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2024
242 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7882-5 (ISBN)

Infos

It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Rape permeated the lives of all who existed in that system: Black and white, male and female, adult and child, enslaved and free. Shannon C. Eaves unflinchingly investigates how both enslaved people and their enslavers experienced the systematic rape and sexual exploitation of bondswomen and came to understand what this culture of sexualized violence meant for themselves and others. Eaves mines a wealth of primary sources including autobiographies, diaries, court records, and more to show that rape and other forms of sexual exploitation entangled slaves and slave owners in battles over power to protect oneself and one's community, power to avenge hurt and humiliation, and power to punish and eliminate future threats. By placing sexual violence at the center of the systems of power and culture, Eaves shows how the South's rape culture was revealed in enslaved people's and their enslavers' interactions with one another and with members of their respective communities.

Autor

Shannon C. Eaves is assistant professor of history at the College of Charleston.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 2 halftones
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: adultery • american slavery • concubine • discretion and interracial sex • Divorce • Elizabeth Keckley • enslaved communities • enslaved women • enslaved women and rape • enslaved women as sexual servants • fancy girls • Harriet Jacobs • illicit intercourse • Interracial Sex and Slavery • James Henry Hammond • long-term sexual liaisons • plantation household • Plantation slavery • Rape Culture • rape culture in the Antebellum South • rape of enslaved women • reproductive exploitation • Sexual exploitation of enslaved women • sexual servitude • Sexual Violence • slave masters • slave mistresses • slaveowners • slavery and agency • slavery and rape • slavery and sexual exploitation • slavery and sexual violence • Slavery in the Antebellum South • slaves • systematic abuse of enslaved women
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7882-9 / 1469678829
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7882-5 / 9781469678825